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Coming off a fruitless two-game road trip and with only 13 games left in the regular season, a high level of commitment and will surely is required but ultimately results are what’s going to matter for this group as they push to get themselves back in the Eastern Conference playoff picture.

The Jets remain four points behind the eighth-place Washington Capitals and five behind the Florida Panthers (who are third) as they get set to face the Dallas Stars on Wednesday.

“You have to find a way at this time of the year, will isn’t enough,” said Jets head coach Claude Noel. “Will is great, but you have to find ways to win games.”

After slipping below the playoff line, the task at hand remains the same for the Jets.

“We’ve got 13 games, we know what we’re doing and we know where we’re going,” said Noel. “We’ll control what we can control.”

At the end of the day, 26 points are available to the Jets, so it’s not like they’re out of the race.

“It doesn’t matter what other teams are doing right now, we’re still right there and we have big games coming up,” said Jets winger Blake Wheeler. “To a certain extent, we control our own destiny. If we keep winning, at some point the teams we’re chasing are going to lose.

“We just need to get back to playing at home like we were before.”

INJURY UPDATE

Noel was taking a cautious approach on the status of defenceman Zach Bogosian but was more upbeat when the topic of Dustin Byfuglien was broached.

Bogosian took part in roughly half of Monday’s workout — which was the original plan, according to Noel — and remains day-to-day, making him a game-time decision for Wednesday’s game.

“He’s coming along, it’s not automatic on Wednesday,” said Noel. “We want to make sure that he’s with us for more than one game.”

Although Byfuglien wasn’t on the ice Monday, he isn’t expected to miss any action with a lower-body injury that isn’t related to the knee problem that had him on the shelf earlier this season.

“He’s good to go, we just have to rest him,” said Noel. “He’s got a lower — below the knee — function that he just needs to stay off the ice a little bit. He’ll be fine.

“Eliminate the parts, I’ll leave it up to you rocket scientists to do all the work.”

Byfuglien blocked a shot in Thursday’s loss to the Vancouver Canucks, so it’s likely a foot or ankle injury that he’s currently dealing with.

IDOL OR IDLE

Noel cracked a joke with reporters when asked how Eric Fehr has handled his idle time as a healthy scratch during the past few weeks?

“You mean American Idol? Oh, i-d-l-e,” said Noel. “You’d have to ask him. It’s never usually very much fun. You always watch that too, how guys prepare themselves or acceptant of not being a full-time player? Those are all things you’re trying to assess.”

For his part, Fehr hasn’t complained about seeing his role reduced and continues to work hard for his next opportunity, which appears to be coming on Wednesday on a line with Jim Slater and Tanner Glass.